Assignment 1 Building FireFox

Purpose

To boldly go where I have not gone before. In other words build the Firefox application by utilizing the necessary documentation provided by Mozilla and other resources.

Hardware

• Intel Core Duo Processor @ 1.86GHz
• 512 MB of RAM
• 80 gig Samsung Hard Drive

Software

1. Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
2. Visual Studio .Net 2003 with Visual C++ included
3. Cygwin installed with the following packages
   1. ash -- UNIX-like command line interpreter shell (Base category)

• • coreutils -- GNU core utilities (includes fileutils, install, sh-utils, and textutils) (Base category) cvs -- concurrent versions system (Devel category)
  • diffutils -- file comparison utility (Base category)
  • findutils (Base category)
  • gawk -- pattern matching language (Base and Interpretors categories)
  • grep -- text search tool (Base category)
  • libiconv -- character set conversion (Devel category)
  • make 3.80 (not 3.81!) -- dependency analyzer for software builds (Devel category)
  • patchutils -- a small collection of programs that operate on patch files (Devel category)
  • perl -- a scripting language used to control parts of the build (Interpreters category)
  • sed -- a search and replace language (Base category)
  • unzip -- zip file extraction (Archive category)
  • zip -- zip file creation (Archive category)

1. moztools - package contains binaries and libraries necessary to build mozilla
2. CVS - source control system used by Mozilla. Downloading the tar balls from Mozilla’s FTP sites can be used also for obtaining the Fire Fox source code.